Five Fun Christmas Decoration Crafts for the Indoors at Home

Decorating a home for Christmas can be a real joy for parents and children alike. There are too many prepackaged decorations to list and enlist while decking your halls, so the personal touch is needed. Here are five great Christmas Decorations for your home that can be customized by the entire family.

Advent Calendar

Instead of purchasing an Advent calendar with classic or contemporary art for a Christmas decoration, consider making one featuring your family home and your family. All you have to do is take a picture of your home from outside and have it printed in a 11 by 13 size (or larger). Take an Xacto knife and position it where an Advent message or photo will be located and cut two parallel lines. Then cut a clean line down the middle of these two lines and fold back the two flaps once to facilitate easy opening. For your Advent scenes you can use custom photos or messages tailored to your family. This makes a fun and personal piece of Christmas art.

Window Decals

Vistaprint.com offers vinyl window decals that can be stuck on any glass surface using a lightly tacked adhesive located on the decal. These can be crafted to be Christmas decorations and printed with custom family messages or images and photographs. A small size (4.8" by 4.8") is available at a cost of $5.24 while a larger size (19.3" x 12.65") can be purchased for $8.99.

Garden Orbs

If you happen to have a garden orb or two floating around that is no longer in use as an outdoor decoration, you can give it a Christmas facelift. A bottle of quality glue, some sequins and appropriate paints can be used to create a massive Christmas decoration that will resemble an oversized Christmas ornament.

Glitter Dyed Feathers

If you have any animals that shed large feathers this can be a virtually free Christmas project. However, craft stores will also carry a large assortment of feathers or suitable alternatives for this Christmas decoration. Take your feathers and dye them a variety of Christmas colors, and then spray them with your favorite adhesive. Slowly trace the feather through a trough of glitter in various shades of silver and gold. Display these feathers in various locations in the house and on any porches to add some exotic Christmas pizzazz!

Create a Window Display

A wonderful Christmas decoration to make, if you have the space, is an old-fashioned Christmas window display. This doesn't have to be done in a window, any corner will work. Take several toys and highly visual objects and arrange them at different height levels with Christmas centered wall-hangings draped behind. Any mechanical or electronic toys that move fluidly will work particularly well for adding a little bit of a holiday magic to your home.

All five of these Christmas decoration crafts will give your home a unique look and a highly personalized vibe this holiday season.